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 Translation for 'telephone box' from English to Bosnian
NOUN   a telephone box | telephone boxes
SYNO call box | phone booth | telephone booth | ...
telephone box {noun} [Br.]telefonska govornica {f}
unverified phone box {noun} [Br.]javna govornica {f}
box {noun} [matchbox, of crackers etc.]kutija {f}
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Usage Examples English
  • A familiar sight throughout the UK, the red telephone box and Royal Mail red post box are considered British cultural icons.
  • The village maintains the Kempley Tardis (a redundant telephone box) - a National Lottery funded project supported by English Heritage.
  • from a stage adaptation of "East Lynne", which became the exclamation of a youth coming out of a public telephone box which he had discovered to be out of order.
  • The red telephone box, a telephone kiosk for a public telephone designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar.
  • Both the Guernsey Post postal boxes (since 1969) and the telephone boxes (since 2002) are painted blue, but otherwise are identical to their British counterparts, the red pillar box and red telephone box.

  • In the "Harry Potter" books – and the films – there is a red telephone box outside the Ministry of Magic that wizards use to access the Ministry.
  • In 2014, a piece of graffiti by street artist Banksy appeared next to a telephone box in a residential street in Cheltenham.
  • McCartney denounced them, saying all four were "famous in their own living rooms" and that their supporters could "fit into a telephone box".
  • The retention of a 1924-pattern red telephone box in the village square has also been seen as inappropriate.
  • from a stage adaptation of "East Lynne" by Mrs Henry Wood, which became the exclamation of a youth coming out of a public telephone box which he had discovered to be out of order.

  • The book included anonymous interviews with some of those who claimed to have been involved in the bombings, and who claimed the protocol 30-minute warning bomb warning had been delayed because the preselected telephone box had been vandalised, and that by the time another telephone box was found, the advance warning had been significantly delayed.
  • The telephone box in which Withnail calls his agent is beside Wideworth Farm Road in Bampton.
  • In June 2015, the last Belgacom telephone box was removed.
  • A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, telephone box or public call box is a tiny structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience; usually the user steps into the booth and closes the booth door while using the payphone inside.
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